Question

In what way was Gustave Courbets The Stone Breakers (Fig. 31-12) an explicit political statement?

A. His elevated his lower-class subject to the heroic status afforded history painting.

B. He refused to exhibit it in the Salon and wrote a manifesto criticizing the academies.

C. He rejected academic conventions to idealize the subject.

D. He depicted an actual event that spawned violent protests outside the city of Ornans.

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